Word: soulfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years, he put together another Follies (his 23rd) and sent it out to Pittsburgh last fortnight for a tryout, he knew he had no breathtakingly new ideas or humor. He knew the music was only cheerfully dependable, not intoxicating, and during the trial he bustled Composer Johnny Green ("Body & Soul") out to try and brush up the songs. But he had followed his old formula: really beautiful girls, the best tap and ballet dancing that money can buy, principals who are currently at top popularity, and the most perfect mounting, dressing, laundering, discipline. To all this he had added...
...runs along so fast that this moment never arrives. Although she has the role of a villainness, The Girl Habit serves as a satisfactory vehicle for the U. S. cinema debut of Tamara Geva, hitherto known for her dancing (in the Chauve Souris, in Whoopee, in the "Body and Soul" episode of Three's a Crowd) and her beauty-blonde, with a strangely triangular face, large, exciting eyes. Her career in Europe had the same twists- she danced in the Diaghilev ballet, was later featured in two UFA cinemas. Before that, she had grown up in Russia...
...does not matter, Mahatma," said she, "but accept, Great Soul, this silver throne and this silver footstool...
Alethea could never understand the violence of Nicholas's feeling until one day his mother arrived from Australia. She was a hideous dwarf. Nicholas hated her, hated the thought that he had dwarf's blood in his veins, was morbidly afraid he himself had a dwarf's soul in a man's body. After a terrible scene Alethea took the little boy and ran away to her aunt in Germany. Though eventually she went back to her husband, for years she did not dare have her son in the same house with him. The boy grew up with a talent...
...accompanied the President to Alaska. . . . We came to know that here was a man whose soul was being seared by a great disillusionment. We saw him gradually weaken from mental anxiety. Warren Harding had a dim realization that he had been betrayed by a few of the men whom he had trusted, by men who he had believed were his devoted friends. It was later proved in the courts that these men had betrayed not alone | his] friendship and trust but their country. That was the tragedy of the life of Warren Harding. . . . The breakdown of the faith...